Safety-razor.



No. 880,785. PATENTED MAR. s, 1908.

' J. HEISSENBERGER.

v SAFETY RAZOR. AI PLIOATION FILED SEPT. 13/1907.

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I'EIssEiv'BERoER, on 'NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR To AUTOMATIC UTILITIESCOMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SAFETY-RAZOR.

concern: ,'Be. .it known-that 1, JOHN HEISSENBER- GER, a citizen of theUnited States, and a resident of the borough of the Bronx of the city,oi New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Safety-Razors, of-

which the following is a specification, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

. IA great many of the safety razors now in.

use are provided with handles which are rigidly secured to the base orplate upon which spectively,-- the handle being omitted in Fig.guard-yiel the blade is fastened so as to be substantially perpendicularto this base or plate and to the razor blade. The blade, in suchdevices, is thus always held in a particular position with respect tothe handle. It is convenient, however, to shave different partsof theface with the blade in different positions with respect to the,handle;where for instance either side of the face-is to be shaved,.it isconvenient to have the handle extended inthe plane of the blade, and ina safety razor, where there is a ard on one side of the blade, it isdesirah e to be able to extend the handle in the plane of the blade withthe guard upon either side. In accordance with the invention, therefore,the base plate to which the blade is secured is attached to the handleby means of a joint which will permit the blade to be turned in variouspositions with respectto the handle, means being provided to hold thebase plate in any articular position to which it is moved. It is alsodesirable to vary the distance'between the shaving edge of the razor andthe guard in order to regulate the closeness of the shave, and for thispurpose means have been devised to move the blade and guard relativelydetail view, upon a sli htly largertscaleQ Figs. 6 and 7 are irontanside elevations re- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filedSeptember 13. 1907. Serial-No. 392.606.

Patented. March a, 1908'.

7, showing a modified construction. Figs. 8

another modification in the constructionof the razor. 2

Referring first to Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, it will be seen that a bladea, preferably-of a wedge shape cross section although of any suitableform, is secured to a base or plate-b by means of a clip f and lugs d.The lugs (i may be formed so as to limit the movement of the blade inalateral direction and also of the base plate b (Fig. 4) and ylieldinglyheld in the position illustrated in t e figures a spring 9 also mountedupon the rear side of the base plate 1). The manner of securing rial tothe present invention. The handle 7 is connected to the rear side of thebase pla pivot Z, the rear side of the base being provided for thispurpose with a backwardly extending portion m which is cut out of thebase itself and bent rearwardly (Fig. 4). This backwardly extendingortion m is flat and is s cured by the pivot to a similar flat piece nscrewed upon the end of the handle h, and this piece n has a downwardlyextending porportion of a resilient strip p sprung between two lugs (1upon the rear side of the base plate. In this way the strip pconstitutes a spring which presses against the piece n and serves tohold the base plate in any position to which it is turned. Any otherform of fricsimilarly hold the base plate in its turned position. I I

' In order to move the guard c relatively to the side of the bladeadjacent to the cutting a piece separate from the base and pivoted tolugs 1 formed upon the ends of the base plate. screw 8 extending throughthe guard c and the base plate a, may conven- Iently serve to adjust theposition of the guard. It is preferable, where this construction isemployed, to provide a collar u in the guard and to insert the screwthrou h this base plate I) a spring t which bears against the base plateand collar and thus holds the downwardly with respect to the guard c,and the clip f may be pivoted upon the rear side for securing the bladein position by means of the blade to the base, however, is not mate-v bymeans of a jointed connection such as a tion 0 which abuts against-aslightly concave or shaving edge, the guard may be formed in dinglyagainst the edge of the blade.

and 9 are detail views in elevation showing tion device may be provided,of course, to

collar and to interpose between the col ar and in Figs. 6 and 7'theguard c is shown as being integral with the base plate b and-the forwardedge of the blade'is mounted in lugs d 'pivoted upon the sides of thebase plate '3 shown in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive." It is of P ;-'In' Figs.8 and 9 videdbetween the handle and the base plate,

'- tion thereof cut away and bent backwardly' and connected by a crosspiece (1 at the rear of the base plate. A screw 8 may be provided toadjust'the position of the lugs d in a similarimanner as ,the screw s isprovided to adjust the position of the movable guard course obvious thateither the blade or the guardfmay -be adjustable to regulate thecloseness-of the shave in accordance With the invention. l U a universaljoint is pro- -,a" convex spring strip o being'ill'ustrated in thesefigures as anot'her form of friction device. which may be employed.Where such a- "spring v-is employed the pivot v is extended roughth'isspring as illustrated particuflarly in'Fig. 8 and serves to hold hebase plate a firmly in any position whil permitting the necessaryflexibility in the j int.

I. claim as my invention: 1-. *The combination in a safety razor of ablade, a base plate for the blade having a porsubstantially normal tothe plane of the base (plate, a handle having a projecting portion,

seam

through the two projecting portions and the spring whereby the proect1ng portions are pivotally'secured to each other and are held infrictional engagemen 3. The combination in a safety razor of ,a

blade, a base plate for the blade, a handle,

the base plate and handle each having a rojectingportiom'means to pivotthe pro ecting portions together, a spri projecting portions infrictiona engagement, and a pivot extending in a direction transverse ofthe handle to pivot one of the projecting portions to the handle.

The specification signed. and witnessed this 11th day of September, A.DJ 1907.

4 JOHN HEISSENBERGER.

Signed in the presence of LUoIUs E. VARNEY, AMBROSE L. OSHEA.

to hold the

